Case closed just moments after being convicted of the statutory rape of a teen girls Steve Parsons collapsed. Minutes after that he was -- Parsons had poison himself with at least some of the 100 grams of cyanide he -- -- a week ago the prosecutor in the case said her sympathies are with the family of the victim who will not see Parsons go to jail he was facing up to seven years behind bars formal toxicology results we'll take a month to complete but the judge has closed the case and sealed all related documents.

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